Susan Lapides

Dates: July 4 – August 29, 2025

‘Sea Change’ is a ten year series of annual portraits that began as a study of 17 girls growing up in a small Atlantic Canadian town. Standing by the Bay of Fundy’s vast, tidal expanse, the subjects face the camera as they take stock of and pose with a lobster. Some of the subjects appear cautious, others proud, and some nonchalant—subtly revealing facets of their character.

The lobster is a symbol of their coastal, close knit community, where fishing has sustained life for millennia and now supports global markets.

Like the lobsters they hold—creatures that molt and regrow their shells—each individual undergoes their own process of change from childhood to adolescence and into adulthood.

Sea Change is a meditation on time, identity, and the forces of family, place, and culture that shape us.